All Wednesday night lectures are held in the Speck Auditorium at 8:00 PM Eastern followed by a wine and cheese reception right outside the building. Lectures are recorded and available for viewing by clicking on the lecture title.












Michael Long
New York University
How does the Brain Generate Behavioral Sequences?
June 22
Sarah London
The University of Chicago
Measuring and Manipulating the Dynamic Genome to Understand Brain Function and Behavior
June 29
Villu Maricq
University of Utah
How Motors Deliver and Remove the Machinery of Memory
July 6
Adrienne Fairhall
University of Washington
Variability and Synchrony in Birdsong Learning
July 13 Nicholls Lecture
Carol Barnes
University of Arizona
Impact of Aging on Circuits Critical for Normal Memory Function
July 20
Todd Sacktor
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
PKMzeta, LTP, and Memory
July 27 Konishi Lecture
Gilles Laurent
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
On the Brain of Sleeping Dragons
The 2015 Wednesday Night Lecture Schedule:
June 10
Benedict Carey
Science Writer
Drunk Fruit Flies and Grandiose Irritability: Finding the Science in the Story
June 17
Bettina Osborn
NIMH
A Bird’s Eye View of an Evolving NIMH Grant Portfolio in Learning and Memory
June 24 Konishi Lecture
Margaret McCarthy
University of Maryland Medical School
Surprising Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
July 1
Sarah Woolley
McGill University
Generation and Perception of Vocal Variability
July 8
Michael Markham
University of Oklahoma
Energetics of an Active Sensory and Communication Signal: Organismal, Cellular, and Molecular Perspectives
July 15 Nicholls Lecture
Allison Barth
Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Connectivity Mediated through Presynaptic Silencing in Pyramidal Cell Networks
July 22 Forbes Lecture
William Catterall
University of Washington
Calcium Channel Regulation and Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity
July 29
Nachum Ulanovsky
Weizmann Institute
Neural Codes for 2-D and 3-D Space in the Hippocampal Formation of Bats
ARCHIVED WEDNESDAY NIGHT LECTURES
Jeff Lichtman (Harvard) A Connectomic Approach to Neural Systems & Behavior 07/31/14
Michael Nitabach (Yale University) Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior 07/08/14
Edward Kravitz (Harvard) A New Department, a New Transmitter Compound, a War and a Movement or How I Spent the 60s and Early 70s 06/23/14